The Flood Forecasting Centre, the Met Office and the UK's environment agencies now share one impact matrix, so flood guidance and weather warnings use the same words.
Colours and overall flood risk levels are unchanged. This site uses the new names throughout, but the text inside older statements keeps the words used when it was issued.
Moderate surface water flooding impacts are possible for parts of England today (Tuesday), and more widely across England on Wednesday. The overall flood risk for England and Wales for the next five days is VERY LOW.
| Source | Overall flood risk | Highest impact |
|---|---|---|
| River | Very Low | Minor |
| Surface Water | Very Low | Moderate |
| Groundwater | Very Low | Minor |
| Coastal/Tidal | Very Low | Minor |
This shows the latest issued Flood Guidance Statement. This is taken from the public Flood Guidance Statement API shortly after it is issued by the Flood Forecasting Centre (a partnership of the Met Office and Environment Agency). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The highest overall risk is shown, as well as the highest forecast flood impact.
Important note
Refer directly to official FFC channels for emergency management decision-making.
Supported sign up and delivery of the FGS is here.
The Flood Guidance Statement is issued every day by the Flood Forecasting Centre, a partnership of the Environment Agency and the Met Office. It sets out the risk of flooding across England and Wales over the next five days from four sources: rivers, surface water, groundwater and the sea.
Each risk is very low, low, medium or high, and combines how likely flooding is with how severe its impacts could be. The statement is written for emergency responders; for flood warnings where you live, use the GOV.UK flood warning service in England or Natural Resources Wales in Wales.
Every statement is kept in the archive, and the calendars and statistics show how often each level of risk has been reached.
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The address of the Model Viewer and Model Multi now follows what is on screen: the layer, Areas, isobars, temperature values, split screen and the rest. Bookmark it, or save it as a shortcut, and it opens the same view at the latest run. For a quick link to one parameter, add ?param=rain (or temp, cloud, wind) to the address.
Open PrecipitationThe Cloud layer now shows white cloud over a darker map, so it stands out clearly, and you can switch between Total, High, Mid and Low cloud to see which layer of the atmosphere the cloud is in. It works on every model on the Model Viewer and Model Multi.
Open low cloud
Temperature on the Model Viewer is now drawn in 3 degree colour bands, and a new Anomaly layer shows how far each model's 2 m temperature is above or below the normal for that date and hour, against 1990 to 2019 (set to the Met Office's 1991 to 2020 averages over the UK), in blue to red bands. Turn on Show temperature values in the settings menu to print the numbers on the map. Tap Space to flip between temperature and anomaly, or hold it to peek. The Split screen switch on the bar shows temperature on the left and its anomaly on the right.
Open the anomaly
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This application brings together real-time data from multiple sources to help you stay informed about weather and flood conditions across the UK.
Important
This application is unofficial and provided for informational, research, and analysis purposes only. Uptime, data completeness, and real-time accuracy are not guaranteed.
To avoid over-reliance during active weather or flood events, do not make safety-critical decisions using this tool. For official warnings and instructions, consult the primary public services directly: